AY18 Faculty Awards and Honors
Congratulations to the following Department of Medicine faculty members for their achievements during 2017-2018! The Center for Regenerative Medicine (CReM) earned the 2017 Sharing Research Resources Award from the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), established “to recognize successful models for sharing biomedical research resources.” Caroline Apovian, MD, FACP, FACN, FTOS, Professor of […]
AY18 Research Accomplishments
The Department of Medicine would like to recognize the following research accomplishments that occurred during FY18. Congratulations to all the faculty members for their innovative, ground breaking research! Published Studies Receiving Mainstream and Science Media Attention: Bindu Kalesan’s study in the Journal of Affective Disorders found that the average profile of an American using […]
Noyan Gokce, M.D., and Ohio University Researcher Awarded NIH Grant
Congratulations to Noyan Gokce, M.D., Professor of Medicine in the Section of Cardiology, who received a 4 year, $2.2 million R01 grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Dr. Gokce and his co-principal investigator Vishwajeet Puri, PhD, Professor at The Diabetes Institute at Ohio University, will investigate the relationship between obesity-induced changes in fat […]
The Evans Center for Interdisciplinary Biomedical Research Establishes Two New Arcs To Promote Team Science
The Evans Center for Interdisciplinary Biomedical Research (ECIBR) has established two new Affinity Research Collaboratives (ARCs), effective 7/1/18. ARCs consist of faculty and trainees from different disciplines across both BU campuses and are organized around foci of common research interests. The development of the ARCs create opportunities for new interdisciplinary approaches to research and training […]
Maureen Dubreuil, MD, MSc, Receives 2018 Spondylitis Association of America (SAA) Bruckel Early Career Investigator in Axial Spondyloarthritis Award
Maureen Dubreuil, MD, MSc, Assistant Professor of Clinical Epidemiology Research & Training, received the 2018 Spondylitis Association of America (SAA) Bruckel Early Career Investigator in Axial Spondyloarthritis Award. The $20,000.00 award was created to recognize outstanding “contributions to the care and understanding of patients with spondyloarthritis,” and named in honor of the Associations co-founder […]
Emelia J. Benjamin, M.D., ScM, Selected To Lead New AHA-Funded Center on AFib
Emelia J. Benjamin, M.D., ScM, Professor of Medicine and Professor of Epidemiology at BUSM and BUSPH, has been selected to lead a new center focused on AFib research, being funded by the American Heart Association (AHA). The Center will examine AFib risk and stroke risk in patients with AFib, with a specific focus on African […]
Shoumita Dasgupta, PhD, Elected to Association of Professors of Human and Medical Genetics
Congratulations to Shoumita Dasgupta, PhD, Associate Professor in the Section of Biomedical Genetics, who was recently elected as the president-elect of the Association of Professors of Human and Medical Genetics (APHMG). Dr. Dasgupta, who also serves in the capacity of assistant dean of admissions, will serve as president-elect from 2018-2020 and president from 2020-2022. Read more: http://www.bumc.bu.edu/busm/2018/05/22/shoumita-dasgupta-phd-elected-to-association-of-professors-of-human-and-medical-genetics/
David Center, MD, Named Treasurer of Association for Clinical and Translational Science
Congratulations to David Center, MD, Section Chief of Pulmonary, Allergy, Sleep and Critical Care Medicine and Professor of Medicine, for being named as treasurer of the Board of Directors for The Association for Clinical and Translational Science (ACTS) in 2018-19. The Association for Clinical and Translational Science focuses on four realms: research, education, advocacy and mentoring and […]
Faculty Members Promoted to Associate Professors
Congratulations to the following DOM faculty members that have recently been promoted to Associate Professors: Vipul Chitalia, MED, Medicine (Nephrology), is an emerging national and international physician scientist in the field of chronic kidney disease (CKD). Focusing on cardiovascular manifestations in patients with CKD and using thrombosis as a disease model, he was the first […]
Craig Noronha, MD, Named As A 2018 Faculty Selection For Alpha Omega Alpha (AΩA)
Congratulations to Craig Noronha, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, who was announced as a 2018 faculty selection for Alpha Omega Alpha (AΩA). Alpha Omega Alpha is the only national honor medical society in the world, and is organized solely for educational purposes. The goals of the society are the promotion of scholarship and research in […]